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    Jacques Rousseau

    Jacques Rousseau is a lecturer in critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder and chairperson of the Free Society Institute - http://fsi.org.za - founded in 2009 to promote secular humanism and scientific reasoning in South Africa. Jacques is a regular contributor to public debates on politics, science and morality in the South African media, via columns, op-eds, television and radio. He blogs on these and other topics on Synapses – http://synapses.co.za - and is active on Twitter as @JacquesR . He believes that the world be a far better place if nobody wanted to read clickbait, and could all explain why.

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  • Zille vs. Haffajee on hate speech and the Economic Freedom Fighters

    Zille vs. Haffajee on hate speech and the Economic Freedom Fighters0

    • Democracy, Development, Politics, South Africa
    • 26.08.2019.

    Before we talk about what the law says, we should talk and think about what sort of society we hope for the law to help create. The law is always going to be an imperfect tool for managing millions of often selfish, confused, partisan, and otherwise compromised humans. So when talking about liberal values such

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  • Race-based party membership: Steven Friedman on BLF

    Race-based party membership: Steven Friedman on BLF0

    • Morality, Politics
    • 05.08.2019.

    Steven Friedman is right to say that Black First Land First (BLF) should be allowed to compete as a political party, even though they limit membership to black voters only. He makes this case in his Business Day column of July 31 (paywalled), but you can also read it on his Facebook wall. The South

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  • On assisted dying, and Sean Davison being sentenced to 3 years of house arrest

    On assisted dying, and Sean Davison being sentenced to 3 years of house arrest0

    • Morality
    • 24.07.2019.

    Sean Davison, who helped his terminally ill mother to die in 2006, and who was subsequently sentenced to 5 months of house arrest in New Zealand (where the “crime” occurred), was on June 19 sentenced to 8 years of house arrest, with 5 suspended, for 3 similar offences. Given that the sentence for murder in

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  • On Chief Justice Mogoeng calling for prayer in Parliament

    On Chief Justice Mogoeng calling for prayer in Parliament0

    • South Africa
    • 29.05.2019.

    When the Judicial Service Commission hearings on Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng were being held, I expressed significant doubts regarding his suitability for the role of Chief Justice. Among my concerns were his views on homosexuality, his reasoning in certain judgments related to sexual assault, and of course, his religious views and whether they would impact on

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“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.” Banksy

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